Full Description
Catholic health care is one of the key places where the church lives Catholic social teaching (CST). Yet the individualistic methodology of Catholic bioethics inherited from the manualist tradition has yet to incorporate this critical component of the Catholic moral tradition. Informed by the places where Catholic health care intersects with the diverse societal injustices embodied in the patients it encounters, this book brings the lens of CST to bear on Catholic health care, illuminating a new spectrum of ethical issues and practical recommendations from social determinants of health, immigration, diversity and disparities, behavioral health, gender-questioning patients, and environmental and global health issues.
Contents
Contents
Foreword xiii
Lisa Sowle Cahill
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction
Catholic Bioethics Meets Catholic Social Thought: The Problematic, a Primer, and a Plan 1
PART ONE
Accompanying Vulnerable Communities 25
Chapter 1
Health Care Providers on the Frontline: Responding to the Gun Violence Epidemic 31
Michelle Byrne, MD, MPH, Virginia McCarthy, Abigail Silva, and Sharon Homan
Chapter 2
Catholic Bioethics and Invisible Problems: Human Trafficking, Clinical Care, and Social Strategy 47
Alan Sanders, Kelly R. Herron, and Carly Mesnick
Chapter 3
Far From Disadvantaged: Encountering Persons with Mental Illness 63
Abraham M. Nussbaum, MD
Chapter 4
Integral Ecology in Catholic Health Care: A Case Study for Health Care and Community to Accelerate Equity 77
Cory D. Mitchell, Armand Andreoni, and Lena Hatchett
PART TWO
Countering Injustice in the Patient-Physician Encounter 93
Chapter 5
Neglected Voices at the Beginning of Life: Prenatal Genetics and Reproductive Justice 97
Aana Marie Vigen
Chapter 6
Bewildering Accompaniment: The Ethics of Caring for Gender Non-Conforming Children and Adolescents 113
Michael McCarthy
Chapter 7
Greening the End of Life: Refracting Clinical Ethics through an Ecological Prism 129
Cristina Richie
Chapter 8
Racial Disparities at the End of Life and the Catholic Social Tradition 143
Sheri Bartlett Browne and Christian Cintron
PART THREE
Incarnating a Just Workplace 161
Chapter 9
Unions in Catholic Health Care: A Paradox 165
Daniel P. Dwyer
Chapter 10
Inviting the Neighborhood into the Hospital: Diversifying Our Health Care Organizations 179
Robert J. Gordon
Chapter 11
The Rocky Road of Women and Health Care: A Gender Roadmap 199
Jana Marguerite Bennett
Chapter 12
Continuing the Ministry of Mission Doctors 217
Brian Medernach, MD, and Antoinette Lullo, DO
PART FOUR
Leading for Social Responsibility 231
Chapter 13
A Call to Conversion: Toward a Catholic Environmental Bioethics and Environmentally Responsible Health Care 235
Ron Hamel
Chapter 14
DACA and Institutional Solidarity 253
Mark Kuczewski
Chapter 15
Reframing Outsourcing 267
M. Therese Lysaught and Robert J. DeVita
Chapter 16
Catholic Health Care and Population Health: Insights from Catholic Social Thought 283
Michael Panicola and Rachelle Barina
PART FIVE
Embodying Global Solidarity 297
Chapter 17
Body Politics: Medicine, the Church, and the Scandal of Borders 301
Brian Volck, MD
Chapter 18
Creating Partnerships to Strengthen Global Health Systems 315
Bruce Compton
Chapter 19
Non-Communicable and Chronic Diseases in Developing Countries: Putting Palliative Care on the Global Health Agenda 329
Alexandre Andrade Martins, MI
Chapter 20
Humanitarian Ethics: From Dignity and Solidarity to Response and Research 343
Dónal O'Mathúna
PART SIX
Reimagining Frontiers 359
Chapter 21
Research as a Restorative Practice: Catholic Social Teaching and the Ethics of Biomedical Research 363
Jorge José Ferrer, SJ
Chapter 22
Environmental Ethics as Bioethics 377
Andrea Vicini, SJ, MD, and Tobias Winright
Chapter 23
A Social Bioethics of Genetics 389
Hille Haker
Chapter 24
For-Profit Health Care: An Economic Perspective 405
Charles M. A. Clark
Contributors 427
